[REBOL] Re: New Beta View based on Core 2.5.2

2002-05-07 Thread atruter
For those interested, here are the 'what diffs: What's different in the Beta: [as-pair [x y]] [attempt [value]] [brightness? [color]] [build-attach-body [body files boundary]] [call {[cmd /input in /output out /error err /wait /console /shell /info]}] [component? [name]] [compose [value

[REBOL] CORE 2.5.2 Bugs/Enhancements

2002-05-07 Thread Frank Sievertsen
Hi! I tested core 2.5.2 right now and like most of the changes you did, thank you! Here is a list of things i still found: --- New Evaluation --- Evalutation is still not very constistent. Maybe you could have a look at http://www.fx5.de/REBOL/hot-values.r (The comments refer to Core

[REBOL] Re: New Beta View based on Core 2.5.2

2002-05-07 Thread Alan Crandall
Hello Carl On 06-May-02, Carl Sassenrath wrote: Here's a new REBOL/View that's based on Core 2.5.2 and includes the current Link 1.0 graphics changes. For testing only. No significant changes to View desktop interface. Only Windows and Linux beta versions are posted. You will find that

[REBOL] Re: On Ipaq!

2002-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and... about view for iPaq? Wow! Think of creating programs with GUI for iPaq! And I will finally discard VISUAL BAxIC! Just couldn't resist it... it runs on the iPaq with PocketPC 2002 as well (Core that is). --Maarten -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL

[REBOL] Re: Assorted bugs?

2002-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, about text-list, I found this problem (I think it is a problem!): view layout [text-list a b a] If a user select the first a text-list even select the third a. It should be a good thing to manage text-list with an index and not directly with the text (maybe creating a new

[REBOL] Re: How to remove the last item of a serie ?

2002-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Gabriele, what you say is one of many other useful information found in this mailing-list. Why nobody writes a technical book (HTML?) about these advanced information?! If Rebol has these great features, but nobody will list and explain them, these features will be lost! If I project a new

[REBOL] Re: Blocks of strings in text-lists.

2002-05-07 Thread Carl Read
On 07-May-02, Gregg Irwin wrote: Hi Jason, How about this? view layout [text-list data [[a ^-bb][cc ^-dd]]] How do you suggest to set/align the TABS when there are long words? That can be a bit of work with proportional fonts. If you just count chars and spaces, it's not so

[REBOL] Re: REBOL/Core 2.5.2 Released

2002-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Carl, I have Rebol/View/Command version of Rebol. Can I install it without loosing my licence? thank you! --Alessandro-- Core 2.5.2 is the next beta release leading up to Core 2.6. There are some important changes in this release. Please give it a try. You can download an executable

[REBOL] Re: return to the red pill

2002-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Carl, I love IT, and this is the why I always look for new languages, new technologies. I think Rebol is a very good system, but it is not very famous, and I'm afraid... why? Think about BeOS... wonderful OS, but unknown OS... I'm afraid Rebol could follow the same way. And this is the why I

[REBOL] Re: Proportional-spaced fonts with accent marks

2002-05-07 Thread Dr. Louis A. Turk
Hi Carl, Romano, and Greg, Many thanks for the help! You guys never cease to amaze me. I'm having to do some traveling, so can't program for a few days. I have more questions, but I want to play around with your code before asking them. Also, almost all my code so far has used Core only,

[REBOL] Re: spam

2002-05-07 Thread Allen Kamp
Hi Graham, I had been thinking about it but then stumbled across mailwasher which does it all for me. http://www.mailwasher.net It even bounces email, which is a great way to cut spam. Cheers, Allen K - Original Message - From: Graham Chiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[REBOL] Re: CORE 2.5.2 Bugs/Enhancements

2002-05-07 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Frank, I second to this. It looks that you forgot to append first [a:] to the examples. - Original Message - From: Frank Sievertsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:42 AM Subject: [REBOL] CORE 2.5.2

[REBOL] Sentences

2002-05-07 Thread Andrew Martin
Here's a early Sentences implementation in Rebol. This script just displays a sentences database: [ Rebol [ Name: 'Triple Title: Triple File: %Triple.r ] ;File: %Flight.r File: %Bookseller.r Liquid: melt load File I: 0 foreach Drop Liquid [ I: I + 1 if block? Drop [

[REBOL] Re: Proportional-spaced fonts with accent marks

2002-05-07 Thread Carl Read
On 07-May-02, Dr. Louis A. Turk wrote: One question, however, I will ask now. Can Rebol manipulate unicode characters provided it doesn't have to print them to screen or paper? Or is this just not possible at all yet? I know next to nothing about unicode, but assuming you're just dealing

[REBOL] Re: CORE 2.5.2 Bugs/Enhancements

2002-05-07 Thread Ladislav Mecir
BTW, your error! result looks arguable to me. - Original Message - From: Frank Sievertsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:42 AM Subject: [REBOL] CORE 2.5.2 Bugs/Enhancements Hi! I tested core 2.5.2 right now and like most

[REBOL] Core 2.5.2 feedback with Rugby

2002-05-07 Thread Maarten Koopmans
I tested 2.5.2 with Rugby, which is fairly complex code. It runs without modification. Thumbs up! Note that Rugby does NOT take advantage of REBOLs new serialization features. The only way this manifests is that you can't pass series with their index out of the box. But then again, I heard

[REBOL] Core 2.5.2 - Less aggressive evaluation - howto evaluate ?

2002-05-07 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Carl, Rebols, it may be that I don't see the obvious, but given a: context[ b: context[ c: 1]] f: func ['word] [print word] f a/b/c a/b/c what do I have to do to get 'word evaluated? Thanks in advance, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL

[REBOL] Re: Graph Drawing /View Performance

2002-05-07 Thread Cyphre
Hi Christian, Nice script ;-) I haven't time to look into its guts but I'll try to find some improvements for better performance(if it will be possible) during the weekend... I thought that Rebol has slow math but while doing some speed tests I noticed that the most CPU power takes

[REBOL] Re: REBOL/Core 2.5.2 Released

2002-05-07 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Congratulations! My preliminary tests are showing, that integer operations are as fast as they were, but floating point operations look like being two times slower than before? -Ladislav - Original Message - From: Carl Sassenrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

[REBOL] Rebol/view 2.5.2 crashes !

2002-05-07 Thread pat665
Hi rebollers, I have just reported the following problem to feedback. rebol 2.5.2 Save as in the desktop editor. Save as opens a file selector where the button Ouvrir should be labelled Enregistrer. Tested with Windows 98 (french version). Ouvrir is the french for Open (Enregistrer/Save). --

[REBOL] Re: spam

2002-05-07 Thread Graham Chiu
I had been thinking about it but then stumbled across mailwasher which does it all for me. http://www.mailwasher.net It even bounces email, which is a great way to cut spam. Hi Allen, I had a quick look .. but I don't think it will suit my needs. I don't really want to run an

[REBOL] Re: transferring files

2002-05-07 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Graham, Graham Chiu wrote: What do ppl use to transfer files across a network? Here're two minimalistic scripts I once used - sending -- #!/bin/r REBOL [] print File Send Utility ^/ fn: ask Filename: if #% = first fn [ remove/part fn 1 ] fn: to-file fn

[REBOL] Re: CORE 2.5.2 Bugs/Enhancements

2002-05-07 Thread Frank Sievertsen
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Ladislav Mecir wrote: BTW, your error! result looks arguable to me. The error! result is ehhh... an error :) -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: CORE 2.5.2 Bugs/Enhancements

2002-05-07 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi, -- use [a] [a: third :bind repend a/words [any-word!]] Interesting, it works also in current version, but more interesting: use [a] [a: third :bind repend a/words [any-word!] change a/known-word reduce [any-word!] ] b: 2 o: context [a: 1 b: 1 ] probe get bind 'b first bind

[REBOL] Rebol 2.5.2 Make-doc-pro gives an error

2002-05-07 Thread pat665
Hi rebollers, Hi Robert Using make-doc-pro (version: 0.9.8 from the rebol library, or version 1.0.0) on a very simple text gives an error. There is no error with rebol 2.5. The Error is : Unknown TAG found: to-word join sect num The text is : 8- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[REBOL] Re: Core 2.5.2 - Less aggressive evaluation - howto evaluate ?

2002-05-07 Thread Cyphre
Hi Ingo and all, I hit this problem in January and Carl answered: Not quite ready yet... but very soon you will be able to use DO to evaluate such paths. However it looks we still have to use for example: z: to-path 'system/schemes == system/schemes less agressive evaluation results: type?